Heel-beading machine



(ModeL) O. J. ADDY.

HEEL READING MACHINE. No. 268593, Patented Deb. 5,1882.

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CHARLES J. ADDY, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEEL-BEADING MACHINE.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,593, dated December 5, 1882.

Application filedOctoher 20, 1882. (ModeL) To all whom it mbty concern Be it known that I, CHARLES J. ADDY, of

tion of an automatic machine for beading the heel-seat and top lift of a boot or shoe heel.

This class of work has usually been done by a tool held directly in the hand of the operator; but in the machine devised by me for this purpose the beading-tool, provided with surfaces properly shaped to head both the top lift and the heel-seat, is connected with a lever, which is vibrated rapidly by a crank-pin on a rotating shaft. The shoe the heel of which is being bended is shown as .held on a movable rest.

Figure 1 represents in front view a heel-beading machine embodying my invention; Fig.2, atop or plan view, with the heel of a shoe in position to have its heel-seat headed; and Fig. 3, a sufficient portion of the top of the machine to show the heel in position to have the top lift beaded.

The part A supports an arm, A, having bearings b b for a shaft, 0, having at its front end a disk, provided with a crank-pin, c, which onters a slot or groove in a lever, d, pivoted atd on a bracket, (1 of arm A. Theouter or free end of the lever d has attached to it by screw 2 the beadingtool c. This beading-tool has a projecting lip or top-lift header, 3, and a projectin g lip or heel-seat header, 4, the former to operate against the top lift, as in Fig. 3, and the latter against the heel-seat, as in Fig. 2,

each lip producing its own head. WVhen the header 3 is operating to head the top lift the end of the top lift bears against the flat face 6 of the tool between the headers 3 and 4, as in Fig. 3, the said face 6 serving as a rest for the heel-seat, and also serving to finish the top lift upon its under face at its edge. The shaft 0 will be driven rapidly by a helt on the pulley 9. (Shown only in Fig. 2)

The shoe h, having the heel h to be beaded, is placed upon a shoe-support, composed of a horizontally-sliding rod, m, having a head, W, to enter the shoe and bear against the inner sole. This rod m is extended through a swivel, m having a pin, m entered loosely into the upright or post 12, so that the said rod m, with the shoe upon it, may be turned or moved in desired direction with relation to the post it.

I claim- 1. The lever d and means to move it, comhined with the beading-tool 6, having the two headers 3 4, with a surface, 6, between them, to operate substantially as described.

2. The lever d, rotating shaft 0, crank-pin to move it, and attached beading-tool, and the headers 3 4, the former to head the top lift and the latter to head the heel-seat, combined with a movable shoe-support to hold the shoe and enable the heel to be properly presented to the action of the two headers, substantially as described.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES J. ADDY.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, 

